THE LEGO MOVIE

Saw this again while awaiting a phone repair. Somebody pointed this out while playing the game and it's in the movie, too; look how many billboards are President Business saying stuff like "What part of 'No' don't you understand?!" and "Because I said so!"

lol

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2700+ bricks at $.10 a Lego means this should run being $250 and $300 American.

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OK, so this movie really was pretty much a big ad, but given it was an ad that explicitly stressed maximum creativity above all else, I'm fine with that. Relied a bit too much on Batman for its laughs, but it needed those laughs. Lol at the controversial be-yourself/everyone is special message.

me the kid loved this film.

i think i laughed more than the kid.

*me and the kid.

that said, the original wording works as well ...

saw this during the weekend with my son. Definitely one of the better kids movies I've seen. I really liked how they went for a retro stop motion look for this movie. Also when a space ship lifts off and it basically makes the sound of an 8 year old making plane/spaceship sounds.

My son was singing that "Everything is awesome" song all day yesterday.

Just got back from seeing this, the 6 year old is playing with his lego and hasn't stopped singing "everything is awesome".

hah xp.

Also when a space ship lifts off and it basically makes the sound of an 8 year old making plane/spaceship sounds.

they did this a couple of times ..

really nice touch.

and the 'behind the scenes' video, behind the bricks, totally rips into the actors who played the various parts.

Loved the 80s spaceman guy, basically everything I built with lego as a kid was a spaceship.

My son is singing "Everything is awesome" too!

'80s spaceman guy was the only time my nostalgia bells rang (in a good way). I totally had '80s lego spaceman, complete with cracked helmet. When he finally starts jetting around yelling "spaceship!!!!" my daughter totally lost her shit.

Speaking of which, internet tshirt companies ahve been quick on the draw, and this popped up:

http://www.bustedtees.com/spaceship

$20 + shipping, but give 'em your email and they'll knock 40% off your first order.

http://1.media.bustedtees.cvcdn.com/5/-/bustedtees.f64d3115-9cff-4317-8aa6-e3c9a2f3.jpg

I'm still looking for a proper blue lego space shirt

I just bought the hell out of that shirt for my wife.

cracked helmet : perfect.
my heart just went all gooeey everytime 80s spaceman was on the screen.
i sooo want that t-shirt.

Oops, we hit a snag while processing your order.

The shipping phone number entered is invalid.
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fuck

dear god.

i am uk'r wanting a sodding t-shirt.

its not build a rocket science.

eBay.uk has some good looking blue classic space logo shirts, too

As I understand it, only the Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! t-shirt will get you laid.

salt. open. wound.

trying all manner of variations.

fuckers aint wanting my ca$h.

thank the lord that i have rediscovered mickey newbury tonight to keep me on the path of righteousness.

uk based groove !

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.15905279.5835/fig,black,mens,ffffff.u1.jpg

this may do me ..

Jesus, they've been busy lately:

http://www.redbubble.com/shop/recent+lego+t-shirts?ref=sort_order_change_recent

Oh and as far as enabling links go, the fact that you can bid on cheap lots of Lego from Goodwill might cause issues for some people.

this is cool

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html

Yeah, if you dig around on youtube, or...other sources, you can find that ep. Stephen Fry shows up.

They made a neat little book about it I got for Christmas last year.

saw this late but I really enjoyed it! it helped that the main voice cast was like 90% people from NBC comedies. also lol'd at will arnett's batman being essentially the same character he played in hot rod .

Or anywhere? He's pretty much got the arrogant buffoon down.

Anthony Lane's review distills the movie's gist down to Marxism.

That was Fox News iirc.

xp mostly it was arnett's tendency to say "babe" a lot

Mark Mothersbaugh?!

what about him

obv this is no Rugrats wrt subversion of capitalist imperialism but

Mothersbaugh is not exactly choosy when it comes to his soundtrack work

Hah I was drunk last night so I can't remember exactly why I posted that, but I'd forgotten he did Rugrats and most of his 90s stuff tbh. Been in a bit of a Wes Anderson bubble wrt that stuff - though ILX prob prefers Crash Bandicoot to WA anyway.

Anyway I was just surprised because I'd been finding "Everything is Awesome" singularly annoying through the course of the movie. Which is the point of it, I concede. And it is kinda Devo to write a pumping anthem for the brainwashed corporate dystopia, to be reprised with varying levels of sarcasm throughout.

Its a beautiful world

Mothersbaugh only produced the song. Lonely Island + 3 others (I think?) wrote it.

I like Tegan & Sara's processed vocals. Yeah, Mothersbaugh didn't write the song, and according to the wiki:

Also included is the song "Everything Is Awesome!!!" written by Shawn Patterson (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and Robot Chicken), Joshua Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton (Jo Li)[59] and performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island, which has also been used in the film's marketing campaign

this was pretty cute i guess. really exhausting though. kids really sat all the way through this? wreck-it ralph felt a million hours long too.

definitely the best morgan freeman performance in years.

I loved this movie but didn't like the "male lead proves that he, not the self-assured manic pixie dream girl, is the real hero" aspect of the plot.

Dragging a bit, but Lego finally put out Benny's spaceship:

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816

http://www.bricksandbloks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/LEGO-70816-Bennys-Space-Ship-LEGO-Movie-Summer-2014-Sets-e1396661618955-640x371.jpg

A hunnerd bucks American at 940 pieces, I believe its the biggest Classic Space-style ship they've ever produced.

Also, it never occurred to me that he's called "Benny" because he acts like he just downed a handful of them.

One of my new favorites to watch high as shit

Can't believe they turned the Matrix Reloaded into a watchable movie

This was great

The Lego set I always wanted as a kid but never got but knew someone who did was the Pirate Ship

I remember that it cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (or maybe fifty) and that was an unbroachable price point

I'll probably never watch this movie again though

I ordered the deluxo set off of Amazon today. Hell, I have enough Amazon cards from staying in hotels so much, so I figured why not

i loved the explosion effects in this, i'd watch hours and hours of just lego flames.

The water & bubbles were great. Very funny, I was pleasantly surprised.